Alf wrote:
> We conquer the WORLD !!
Why? You even started to speak like Linus Torvalds, eh? :P
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>
> Elvin
> -
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Hin Chin Qui wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > >Sheesh.. are we gonna evolve to some socialogy group ?
> > >I just wanna share linux..
> >
> > And I just wanna get the job done. 'Nuff talk. Let's discuss the next move.
> >
> > CQ
> >
> > >
> > >Elvin
> > >-
> > >
> > >
> > >On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> > >
> > >> It seems that many people here, despite
> > >> being involved in the Linux world and seen
> > >> how Linux became successful, want to adopt
> > >> a sociological system which only works for
> > >> agricultural/industrial type of society
> > >> and does _not_ work in a social order where
> > >> all social demarcations are in the process
> > >> of being broken up with the advent of the
> > >> Internet.
> > >>
> > >> You look at all the Linux communities worldwide,
> > >> and you will see that there are no formally
> > >> appointed leaders. Before I even suggested the
> > >> site, I quoted the Darwinist propaganda, "life
> > >> will find a way". It seems that I have
> > >> overestimated this group's knowledge on Darwinism,
> > >> evolution and natural selection. What I have been
> > >> saying is what Rhandeev has just told you in very
> > >> simple and direct terms, a leader will _evolve_ out
> > >> eventually, in several areas. It is best that for
> > >> a social order that Linux seems to be moving towards,
> > >> we better let a leader evolve by itself, and at best,
> > >> naturally and non officially.
> > >>
> > >> _TRUST_ us, we have seen hacker communities fell to
> > >> internal political strife. Once you form a leader formally,
> > >> I assure you for sure that the portal will collapse
> > >> immediately. Linux itself is one good example of a
> > >> successful "leaderless" developmental project, if some
> > >> of your religious devotion to Linux is so strong, why don't
> > >> you follow the model that makes Linux so successful and
> > >> apply it to the Portal?
> > >>
> > >> ps : and to Chin Qui, yes, I am reading Wealth of
> > >> Nations now, and I must say that you are missing the
> > >> point completely. Adam Smith might not be completely
> > >> correct in today's context, but his ideas on division
> > >> of labour as the modus operandi of synergistic
> > >> economy still hold, and contradict Rhandeev's puny little
> > >> taunt for me to "refine my own metals".
> > >>
> > >> And even if Wealth of Nations no longer makes any sense
> > >> now, it still serves as a piece of literature which marks
> > >> an important point in our history of social evolution and
> > >> academic thought.
> > >>
> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> > >> Ng Kai Hoe Raymond Pager : 92279944 ICQ UIN : 4878260
> > >> Editor, Singapore Linux Portal, http://linux.com.sg
> > >> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> PGP Public Key : http://members.tripod.com/~ngkaihoe/ngkaihoe.txt
> > >>
> > >> 'The pursuit of truth, when it is whole hearted, must ignore moral
> > >> considerations; one cannot know in advance that the truth will turn out
> > to
> > >> be what is thought edifying in a given society.'
> > >> - Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
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Ng Kai Hoe Raymond Pager : 92279944 ICQ UIN : 4878260
Editor, Singapore Linux Portal http://linux.com.sg
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Public Key : http://members.tripod.com/~ngkaihoe/ngkaihoe.txt
'This has given me the greatest trouble and still does: to realize
that what things are called is incomparably more important than what
they are.'
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "The Gay Science"
